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For many boomers, the moment on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong became the first human to set foot on an extraterrestrial orb is indelibly etched in our memories. Those memories flooded back a little more than 43 years later at Armstrong's passing at age 82. On AARP's Facebook page, nearly 1,000…
If you were around on July 20, 1969, you probably spent that evening as an estimated 500 million others around the world did, eyes glued to our TV screens as we watched astronaut Neil Armstrong climb down from the Apollo 11 lunar module and take the first steps by a human on the surface of the Moon.
If you were an adolescent would-be hippie stuck in Pittsburgh or Peoria during the 1967 Summer of Love, you probably remember the siren call of "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)." You probably have a harder time remembering who sang it.
For every actor who achieves fame for a single, signature role in television or the movies, countless others ply their trade in relative anonymity for decades - those skilled, protean thespians who show up continually on the screen (big and/or small), prompting us to scratch our heads and try to…
Tony Scott directed 16 films, including the Tom Cruise hits Top Gun and Days of Thunder, but he got little of the critical acclaim showered on Hollywood contemporaries such as Martin Scorsese, Clint Eastwood, and Steven Spielberg. Accolade-wise, he even was overshadowed by his older brother Ridley,…
Raise your hand and shout "Ooh! Ooh! Ooh!" if you loved the antics of remedial high school student Arnold Dingfelder Horshack on the late 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter.
When it comes to tastes in music, Gen Y members probably think of boomers as those outdated, crotchety cranks who keep all the buttons on their car radios preset to classic-rock stations. (And in fairness, in our youth we probably felt the same way about the pre-boomer generation that spawned our…
If you were enthralled by the diminutive, charming protagonist of Steven Spielberg's E.T., the towering ape in the 1976 remake of King Kong, or the hideous, homicidal beast in Ridley Scott's Alien, thank Carlo Rambaldi.
This guest post was written by AARP Editorial Director Myrna Blyth, who was the longtime editor of "Ladies' Home Journal" and founding editor of "More" magazine.
Dr. James West would have earned a spot in medical history solely on the basis of his signature achievement as a surgeon. In 1950, West was part of the team at a Chicago-area hospital that was responsible for the first successful human kidney transplant (in this case, into Ruth Tucker, who was in…